Play Therapy in Texas: Explore, Heal, and Grow
Unlock the healing potential of play with our play therapy services, designed to nurture your child’s emotional, behavioral, and social development.
Launch Your Child’s Healing Journey in Three Simple Steps
1. Get in Touch
Get started with Mind Works by filling out our simple contact form online or giving us a call.
2. Complete Intake Process
Submit all required paperwork so we can better understand your child’s history and needs.
3. Begin Treatment
Meet your child’s provider to establish a treatment plan and begin play therapy sessions.
Launch Your Child’s Healing Journey in Three Simple Steps
1. Get in Touch
Get started with Mind Works by filling out our simple contact form online or giving us a call.
2. Complete Intake Process
Submit all required paperwork so we can better understand your child’s history and needs.
3. Begin Treatment
Meet your child’s provider to establish a treatment plan and begin play therapy sessions.
Feeling Overwhelmed by Parenting Challenges? Let’s Tackle This Together.
Parenting can be full of pressures, uncertainties, and challenges. Together, we’ll create a supportive plan tailored to your child’s needs, ensuring you both are set up for success.
Nurturing Happy, Confident Children With Child Therapy
As a parent, you want your child to live out the happy, healthy, well-adjusted childhood you envisioned for them. It can be so challenging to watch your child struggle to make friends, tackle life’s challenges, or reach their true potential. If you worry that your child doesn’t have the skills to succeed in life, it’s easy to feel discouraged.
At Mind Works, our team is here to equip your child with the tools they need to thrive, helping them to explore the world around them with confidence and joy. Enlisting the help of a child therapist is never a sign that you’ve failed – rather, it shows you’re an involved and loving parent that is truly committed to seeking out the best for your child. We’re here to partner alongside you in the journey and ensure your child is set up for success.
How Play Therapy Helps Your Child Thrive at Home, School, and Play
Play therapy is one of the most utilized methods used for helping children ages 3-12 navigate common concerns related to behavioral health. This treatment method takes your child through a powerful journey of discovery and healing, where they can use the universal language of play to explore their feelings, solve problems, and express themselves. Here are several of the key benefits of working with a play therapist.
Improve Emotional Expression
Children struggle to express their feelings and experiences through words. Play therapy allows children to express themselves in way that feels safer and more organic to them than traditional talk therapy.
Develop Social Skills
Play is the key way children learn to effectively interact with their peers. Through play therapy, children can practice how they communicate, share, negotiate, and resolve conflicts, enhancing their social abilities.
Target Problematic Behaviors
There are many factors that contribute to behavioral problems in children. A play therapist can aim to better understand these contributors and help your child to better manage their actions.
Fosters Problem-Solving
Play therapy encourages your child to think creatively, use imaginative thinking, and solve problems. This process translates into the real world, allowing your child to face challenges skillfully and confidently.
Strengthens Family Relationships
As a parent, it can be frustrating to try and address the same issues over and over. A play therapist helps you to focus on techniques that foster mutual respect, encourage understanding, and fortify your bond.
Teaches Coping Mechanisms
Children need to learn how to respond when faced with disappointment, fear, anger, and sadness. Your child’s play therapist will teach them how to accept and work through negative emotions in healthy ways.
How Play Therapy Helps Your Child Thrive at Home, School, and Play
Play therapy is one of the most utilized methods used for helping children ages 3-12 navigate common concerns related to behavioral health. This treatment method takes your child through a powerful journey of discovery and healing, where they can use the universal language of play to explore their feelings, solve problems, and express themselves. Here are several of the key benefits of working with a play therapist.
Improve Emotional Expression
Children struggle to express their feelings and experiences through words. Play therapy allows children to express themselves in way that feels safer and more organic to them than traditional talk therapy.
Develop Social Skills
Play is the key way children learn to effectively interact with their peers. Through play therapy, children can practice how they communicate, share, negotiate, and resolve conflicts, enhancing their social abilities.
Target Problematic Behaviors
There are many factors that contribute to behavioral problems in children. A play therapist can aim to better understand these contributors and help your child to better manage their actions.
Fosters Problem-Solving
Play therapy encourages your child to think creatively, use imaginative thinking, and solve problems. This process translates into the real world, allowing your child to face challenges skillfully and confidently.
Strengthens Family Relationships
As a parent, it can be frustrating to try and address the same issues over and over. A play therapist helps you to focus on techniques that foster mutual respect, encourage understanding, and fortify your bond.
Teaches Coping Mechanisms
Children need to learn how to respond when faced with disappointment, fear, anger, and sadness. Your child’s play therapist will teach them how to accept and work through negative emotions in healthy ways.
Begin Your Child’s Success Story
Ready to get started or have more questions for our team before moving forward? Give us a call or fill out a simple form online to start the journey toward your child’s thriving future.
Why Mind Works?
Specialized Expertise
Comprehensive Treatment Options
Collaborative Approach
Evidence-Based Care
Frequently Asked Questions:
The Association for Play Therapy (APT) defines play therapy as “the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development.”
Play therapy is different than traditional talk therapy in that the therapist helps children to address and resolve their own problems using play. Play is a natural medium used by children to communicate. Through play, children learn about themselves and their relationships in the world around them.
Play therapy gives children opportunities to learn to communicate with others, identify and express their feelings, and increase emotional regulation. Play therapy also helps children to work on changing their behavior and begin to develop coping and problem-solving skills that can be used later in life.
When children can communicate in their own developmental language and are provided with a safe environment to express their emotions, they can begin to move and work through conflict. They are able resolve struggles with a trained play therapist who can understand and interpret the therapeutic meaning behind their play. A play therapist is trained in understanding the meaning behind play while helping to assess every child’s individual needs. Play therapy is an Evidenced Based Model for therapy.
Play Therapy can be used with children of all ages. Play therapy is especially appropriate for children ages 3-12 therapy. Teens and adults can also benefit from some play therapy techniques.
Play therapy addresses a variety of issues including but not limited to misbehavior, attachment, anxiety disorders, depression, grief and loss, abuse and neglect, autism, divorce, obsessive compulsive disorders, trauma, crisis, attention deficit hyperactivity, anger management, peer pressure, stress, academic and social difficulties, and learning differences.
Play Therapy sessions typically are 50-60 minutes in length. Sessions are held on a weekly basis for a few months. Working with your play therapist can help you determine the frequency and duration of sessions. Research suggests it takes about an average of 20 sessions for children to resolve problems of the typical child that is referred for treatment.
Your play therapist will make decisions on how or when in incorporate individual or all family members if deemed therapeutically appropriate. At a minimum level you as the caregivers will be involved in the treatment planning and process of your child. Your therapist will communicate on a regular basis with the child’s caregivers while monitoring progress in treatment
The first session is the intake session that is designed for parents only. Here you will meet your child’s therapist to discuss and define the counseling relationship. Your therapist will gather information about your child, biological, psychological, and social history, and how this is impacting your current situation. You and your therapist will also discuss treatment goals moving forward and begin setting up appointments for your child.
Our goal is to help you feel supported and understood. At Mind Works we strive to include parents as partners in the process. We will set up a feedback session over the next 5-8 weeks where you and your therapist can discuss progress, continued treatment goals, while providing parental guidance and support.
Success Stories
“Highly recommend Mind Works. I am a clinician in Illinois and needed to find a clinic in Texas that could provide services to my client that was moving. This is no easy feat to do across the United States. Mind Works was fabulous to work with from the very beginning. Coordination of care was 5 stars and my “previous” client is very happy with their new counselor. Thank you very much for going above and beyond during this difficult time so many other counseling offices are facing. I appreciate all the help and coordination you offered my client!”
“I have known the owners for over 8 years and have taken a family member to Mind Works. Therefore, I can speak of them both personally and professionally. There truly is no better place for this service, especially for children and young adults. On the personal level, I know how much they truly care about everyone they meet. On a professional level, the entire staff is a reflection of the dedication to helping others and competence that gets results that the owners exude. During the incredibly trying time of this pandemic and the fear and anxiety it has caused many people, we are incredibly blessed to have Mind Works available to support.”
“The front desk staff is kind and courteous and helped me find the right therapist for my child. When I met my therapist she was kind and explained the process to me. I love that she included me in the play therapy process and helped me understand how to help my child. Thankful for the therapists at Mind Works!”
“Mindworks is the leader in child centered play therapy and collaborative care in San Antonio and surrounding areas. Their focus is solely on the mental health of children and teenagers. Each clinician at all four locations is seasoned, knowledgeable, experienced, and capable. Parents trust that their child is going to get the treatment and services they need and deserve.
I thoroughly enjoyed working as a clinician at Mindworks. The support and leadership is consistent and outstanding. Unlike any other job that I have had, leadership and clinicians work together to cultivate an awesome work environment.”
Help Your Child Soar to New Heights
A world of possibility awaits your child, and we’re so excited for the opportunity to help them work through roadblocks, improve their skills, and unleash their potential. Get in touch with our team and start your child down a happier, healthier path today!
